Year-in-review notes and reflections on work and life.
17 Aug 2026 — Leading a team, a project or a product? A beginning captain is short-sighted: they don't yet know they have a ship, then they miss the sea and the holes in the hull. School helps. Your own deck teaches more — if you find the holes before you go under.
29 Jul 2026 — Working on vacation never worked for me, and neither did lying on a beach. What did: mild chaos, active travel, a team that runs without me, and a few rituals for switching off. A field report from a recovering workaholic.
6 Jan 2026 — A year of pivots — scaling PageSpeed.ONE, reshaping a frontend community, an overload crisis, and learning growth has a cost.
6 Jan 2025 — The year I finally stopped being ashamed of being a manager — and found I actually enjoyed it.